Wintu

The Wintu language was traditionally spoken at the upper end of the Sacramento Valley, north of Cottonwood Creek, on the upper Sacramento River and its tributaries to the north, and on the upper Trinity River to the west. In pre-contact times, there were 12,500 speakers of Nomlaki, Patwin, and Wintu together (Kroeber 1932). Today, there are no first-language speakers (Golla 2011).